Conferences

n.andre — 2024-11-27T12:14:31Z

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Organiser

Understanding the variability of Io and its torus via a combination of observations and models, Toulouse, 5-6 may 2025
Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets, Toulouse, 26-31 July 2026
Europlanet Science Congress, Toulouse, 19-24 September 2027

Local Organizing Committee

Sf2a, week of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Toulouse, 1-4 July 2025

Outreach activities and press releases

n.andre — 2024-11-27T09:20:04Z

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ISAE-SUPAERO

Journée de l'Espace ISAE-SUPAERO 2ème édition, 22 janvier 2026
Salon Infosup, 10 Janvier 2026
Visite au Pic du Midi avec le Club Astronomie - projet Star'Ex, 11 octobre 2025
Nuit européenne des chercheurs, 03 octobre 2025 (évènement annulé)
Salon du Bourget, 21-22 juin 2025
Salon Infosup, 11 janvier 2025
Journée de l'Espace ISAE-SUPAERO, 1ère édition le 17 octobre 2024
Forum de l'Ecole Polytechnique, 15 octobre 2024
Journées Portes Ouvertes ISAE-SUPAERO, 12 octobre 2024
Forum Les métiers du spatial, Lycée Paul Riquet Saint Orens, 17 décembre 2024

Programme d'Ouverture Sociale OSE L'ISAE-SUPAERO

L'exploration habitée de la Lune, Collège Leclerc, Saint Gaudens, 9 janvier 2026
Détection des muons à bord d'une fusée, Collège Leclerc et Lycée Bagatelle, OSE l'ISAE, Saint Gaudens, 15 janvier 2025
L'homme de retour sur la Lune, les défis à relever, Collège Leclerc, Saint Gaudens, 18 mars 2025
Journées des métiers scientifiques, OSE l'ISAE, Collège/Lycée, Toulouse, 27 mars 2025

CV

n.andre — 2024-11-27T09:20:02Z

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Current position

Professor in Planetary Sciences at ISAE-SUPAERO, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS section 19, in secondment from IRAP, Toulouse.

Full CV

For my full CV (last updated 2023) please go here.

Education

HDR, Structure and dynamics of planetary magnetospheres, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (2023)
PhD, Low-frequency waves and instabilities in gyro tropic plasmas : application to the interchange instability in the magnetospheres of giant planets, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (2003)
Engineer in Space Techniques and Vehicles, SUPAERO, Toulouse (2000)
International Space University, Summer School, Nakhon Ratchasima (1999)
Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles, Lycée Fabert, Metz
Baccalauréat C, Lycée Saint Exupéry, Fameck

Teaching activities and courses

n.andre — 2024-11-27T08:20:28Z

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Responsibilities

Domain Universe Sciences, 3rd year ISAE, In charge
Master 2 Astrophysics, Space, and Planetology, University of Toulouse/ISAE, Co-lead
Physique Spatiale et Instrumentation Research Unit for SDU2E Doctoral School, ISAE-ONERA, in charge

Courses

Scientific missions, BE (35h), 3rd year, OTSU303
Advanced Celestial Mechanics, CM Introduction (3h) and BE (3h), 3rd year, OTSU311
Planetology, Telescopes and Space Situational Awareness, CM Sun-Earth interactions (3h), CM Ocean worlds (3h), CM Giant Planets (3h), 2nd year, EEOS213
Astrophysics and plantology, CM (25h), 1st year, EEOS101
Aerospace Espace, CM (5h), 1st year, TCA-SP
Aerospace Espace, BE (20h), 1st year, EIA-SP
Experimental Practice, TD (20h), 1st year, PREX
Sustainability and Aerospace, TD (20h), 1st year, SAE1A-TEX
Space Situational Awareness, X-Executive Master (1h45)
Planetary Sciences and Exploration, ESTACA (19h)
COMETES, Space Situational Awareness (15h)

Research

n.andre — 2024-11-27T08:20:26Z

The interactions between the ambient plasmas and the objects of the Solar System result in variable exchanges both in time and space of mass, momentum and energy within different types of magnetospheres. The characterization of the sources, the general circulation and the losses of the magnetospheric plasmas as well as the identification of the coupling processes between the different regions composed of plasmas of different properties and origins, in particular at their interface where the exchanges are at the origin of the dynamics of the magnetosphere, constitute the key objectives of magnetospheric physics. While the planetary magnetospheres involve similar physical principles and electromagnetic processes, each of them constitutes a unique plasma physics laboratory and their comparative study allows us to test our understanding of how the Solar System works in all its complexity.

My research aims to deepening our understanding of the large-scale structure and dynamics of some planetary magnetospheres through the theoretical modeling of plasma processes operating therein, the analysis of multi-instrument and multi-mission space data, the development of instruments measuring in situ the properties of magnetospheric plasmas, the proposal of missions to explore the magnetospheres of the Solar System, and the development of planetary plasma databases as well as multi-instrument and multi-technique analysis tools for the community, all of which provide a better understanding of the large-scale structure and dynamics of planetary magnetospheres. All of these approaches are essential to better understand the physical and phenomenological state of the natural environments of the Solar System.

The multidisciplinary exploration of the magnetospheres of Solar System objects allows me to acquire a fundamental understanding both of the phenomena operating in these unique plasma physics laboratories, and of the objects in planetary sciences.

PhD students and postdocs

n.andre — 2024-11-27T08:20:23Z

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Open positions

Calibration of a multi-head particle detector with machine learning (PhD)

Master students

Arnaud Bombonel, Plasma losses in fast-rotating magnetospheres (Master 2, 2026)
Fiona Martin and Júlia Soler i Pla, Plasma leakage through the magnetospheric boundaries of Jupiter and Saturn (Master MAE, 2026)
Giorgio Sita, North-south asymmetries of Jupiter's magnetosphere (Master MAE, 2026)
Pauline Cauvet and Camille Oudot, Impact of stellar variability on exoplanet characterization and detection : The Sun as a case study through the development of SUNSCAN (ISAE 2A, 2025)
Baptiste Billotte, Etude optique d'un coronographe du tore de Io, with Michel Blanc (IOGS 2A, 2025)
Frederik Juncker, Etude du bruit de fond des spectromètres de particules chargées embarquées sur les sondes planétaires en relation avec les évènements solaires (ISAE 2A, 2025)
Thibault Blossier, Northward displacement of the magnetic field of Mercury from MESSENGER observations (ISAE 2A, 2025)
Marta Scherillo, Ion cyclotron waves from Cassini engine exhausts during Saturn Orbit Insertion (Master 1, 2024)
Giuliano Vinci, Modeling of the Io plasma torus, with Michel Blanc, (Master 2, 2024)
Alexi Seves, Temporal and spatial variation of the electron and ion environments at Europa's orbit (Master 2, 2024)
Anderson Gonnet, Caractérisation of plasma waves in the Galilean moons-Jupiter electrodynamic circuit, with Jonas Rabia, (Master 2, 2025)
Camille Coustillet, Electron dynamics in small magnetospheres : the case of Mercury/Ganymede, with Mathias Rojo, (Master 2, 2025)
Titouan Teissieres, Turbulence in the Jovian system using Juno, link to the outward transport of plasma, with Marie Devinat, (Master 1, 2025)

PhD students

Anderson Gonnet, Analysis of extreme space weather events at Mercury from multi-point measurements in the heliosphere and magnetosphere, with Aurélie Marchaudon, (10/2025-now)
Camille Coustillet, Electrons Self-consistent KinetIcs at Mercury : Observations and Simulations, with Mathias Rojo and Sae Aizawa, (10/2025-now)
Thomas Le Liboux, Development of an hybrid model of Callisto-magnetosphere interactions, with Ronan Modolo, (2023-now)
Marie Devinat, Development of a theoretical model of plasma transport in fast rotating magnetospheres, with Michel Blanc, (2023-now)
Jonas Rabia, Moon-magnetosphere interactions at Jupiter, with Quentin Nénon, (2022-2025)
Erwan Berthomé, Development of a low-noise front-end electronics for the measurement of charged particles at medium energies, with Pierre Devoto, (2020-2024)

Postdocs

Zhi-Yang Liu, Structure and dynamics of the Jovian magnetodisk (2024-2026)
Aneesah Kamran, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere coupling at Jupiter (2024-2025)
Mathias Rojo, Analysis of BepiColombo Mercury Electron Analyzer observations during the Mercury flybys (2022-2027)

Committees

Antoine Schneeberger, Composition of the primordial matter in protoplanetary environments : Implication for the origins of the Galilean moons and giant planets, Thesis defense on December, 5 2024 in Marseille (reviewer)
Pietro Dazzi, Electric sensors for in situ space plasma diagnostic : mutual impedance and quasi-thermal noise, Thesis defense on April, 28 2025 in Orléans (reviewer)
Brieuc Collet, Analyse in situ des émissions décamétriques aurorales joviennes avec Juno, Thesis defense on September, 22 2025 in Marseille (examiner)
Tom Benest, Étude des conditions de formation du système Jupiter, Thesis defense on December 2025 in Marseille (reviewer)

Projects and responsibilities

n.andre — 2024-11-26T14:33:38Z

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Science proposals

ERC CALYPSO History of the Galilean Moons' Hydrospheres : Bridging Primordial and Modern Epochs Through Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data, PI (not selected in Phase 2, 2024 ; resubmitted 2025)
ANR ESKIMOS Electron Self-consistent Kinetics at Mercury : Observations and Simulations, PI (not selected, 2024, resubmitted 2025)
AID SWAPPER Space Weather Alerts from other Planets Propagated to Earth with Reliability, PI (not selected, 2024)
ANR CANTALOUPE CentrifugAl iNstabilities and Turbulence in plAsmas : from LaboratOry plasmas to JUPiter's magnetospherE, CoI (funded)
ANR FACOM Fate of the volatile Components at the Galilean Moons, CoI (funded)

Instrumentation : Hardware development

CNSA Tianwen-4, Electron and Negative Ion spectrometer, built at IRAP PI (ongoing)
Strategic Booster TIRIS TRIO Network of Telescopes to survey Io, PI (not selected, 2024)
NASA Lunar Surface Vehicle, CoI (not selected, 2024)
CSUT TTL Flash-sat, a CSUT cubesat to study meteor showers at Earth and impact flashes on the Moon from returning Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, PI (submitted)
ESA M-MATISSE Phase A, Solar Energetic Particles at Mars, Deputy PI (ongoing)
ESA Comet Interceptor Phase BCD, Low-Energy Electron Spectrometer built at IRAP, PI (ongoing)
R&D CNES Silicon detector Phase BCD, Evaluation of science performances of customized silicon detectors for charged particle instruments, CoI (ongoing)
ESA Juice Phase E, Particle Environment Package, CoI (in flight)
JAXA Mio BepiColombo Phase E, Mercury Electron Analyzer built at IRAP, Lead CoI (in flight)

Instrumentation : Scientific role

CNSA Tianwen-3, Plasma and Energetic Neutral Atom consortium Phase BCD (ongoing)
ESA Comet Interceptor Phase BCD, Mass Analyzer for Neutrals In a Coma, CoI (ongoing)
ESA Juice Phase E, Radio and Plasma Wave Instrument, CoI (in flight)
ESA Juice Magnetospheric Working group 3, Team Member

Mission proposal

ESA Mini-Fast call for missions, Temple Tuttle Leonid Flash-sat, PI (ongoing)
ESA F3 call for missions, Hannes, CoI (ongoing)
ESA M8 call for missions, Low Thermosphere-Ionosphere Mission, CoI (ongoing)
ESA M8 call for missions, Inanna, CoI (not selected, 2025)
ESA M8 call for missions, Heavy Metal, CoI (not selected, 2025)
ESA F3 call for missions, Dungey-V, CoI (not selected, 2025)

Services to the community

CNRS, Section 19 Astrophysics, Elected member (2025-)
CDPP, the French space plasma data center, Project Scientist and Executive Director (2020-2025)
Juice/PEP National Service of Observations, In charge
BepiColombo/Magnéto National Service of Observations, In charge
Action Spécifique Observatoire Virtuel, Council Member

Conferences

Conferences

Organiser

Local Organizing Committee

Outreach activities and press releases

ISAE-SUPAERO

Programme d'Ouverture Sociale OSE L'ISAE-SUPAERO

Saturn and Cassini

Mercury and BepiColombo

Comet Interceptor

Jupiter and JUICE

Europlanet

CV

Current position

Full CV

Education

Teaching activities and courses

Responsibilities

Courses

Research

PhD students and postdocs

Open positions

Master students

PhD students

Postdocs

Committees

Projects and responsibilities

Science proposals

Instrumentation : Hardware development

Instrumentation : Scientific role

Mission proposal

Services to the community